Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

After the Restoration he refused preferment while retaining a non-separatist Presbyterian approach and became one of the most influential leaders of the nonconformists spending time in prison. His ministry continued with many interruptions for about 19 years; and during that time he accompliRichard Baxterd many reforms in Kidderminster and the neighbourhood. one which would have the same effect in moral government) as that deserved by mankind because of offended law.

Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Puritan church leader poet hymn-writertheologian and controversialist. After the Restoration he refused preferment while retaining a non-separatist Presbyterian approach and became one of the most influential leaders of the nonconformists spending time in prison.